The Worst Stereotypes of Iowa
One of the things that makes me REALLY mad in life is how everyone stereotypes Iowa as: A Neverending Corn Land Where Everyone Lives on Farms. If you thought that then you're terribly wrong. Wherever I go people always tell me I have a funny accent when they have the accent. And everyone I meet asks how many potatoes my family brings in. I'm sorry, but I live in a city, and we don't grow potatoes, we grow CORN! And everyone else always says we know nothing. But I do believe its Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS). And if you think that we live miles away from each other on farms that are only connected by gravel roads then I will come to your house and slap you because we have paved roads, live feet from our neighbors house, and the only food my family grows is razzberries and we don't sell those for a living. And don't begin to think we drive around on tractors and that we know everyone in town, because I only know my neighbors, and 60,000 people live in my SMALL city, and if you think we drive tractors then you're thinking of Texas. And you people think we only see corn and oak trees but my view consists of the Mississippi River, a crane building a new parking garage, and the snowy trees that look like they came from heaven. And don't think that we where overalls and have cow poo on our boots. I have jeans, a tee shirt, and freshly washed hair and black nail polish. Don't think out nearest colledge is in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, or the Quad Cities, because I have 3 right in my own small town. And don't think we catch rain water and drink it because we can drink straight from our clean tap water that tastes a LOT better then Floridas and I know from experiece.
--Megan, age 12, Iowa
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